In protest to any phrase even remotely resembling "I don't know, Just design something cool." Damnit! If I never hear that word again.... that b@$tard word.
i don't think i've ever asked for 'cool art', but in the event that i have, the irony here is that you haven't delivered. if you're going to literalize a pun like this, take it to the next level; actually printing t-shirts designs with liquid nitrogen based inks. or you could just pick your battles. the word cool and its connotations have been around long before you, and will be around long after you're gone.
Perhaps you have the advantage of not having to create for the average, perhaps you don't. Either way I believe have delivered, by proving that what is "cool" to me may not be "cool" to you, and yes it is ironic. If you'll take note to read the very first comment, this design was in protest.
So many times the empasis of good art is placed upon that one word.... Professional artists tend not to use it, maybe because they can understand just how fallible it is. But the average individual, Joe Homey at the local dry cleaners, does not. To many people that is the only word they know to explain what they want. I am a professional artist who designs award winning apparel art for t-shirts and embroidery. Everyday, all day. I am sorry, obviously I have no leg for my wit to stand on.
Oh, and currently in the process of development on those LNI. Perhaps you guys would simply do better printing a whitebase and a white highlight on your darks, and not taking yourselves so seriously.
Obvious message. Joke is not particularly witty nor is the design visually interesting. The designer's boasting and whining is pretty funny though. Print that. I'd buy it.
you know, when i saw it i thought it was cheesy, but now after reading the comments, i am gonna have to stick with cheesy.
maybe remove the words, and then put a popsicle stick and orange juice in one of the sections, After an hour, mmmm! you got yourself a little juice-cicle!
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